Projects in categories: Fiction

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Desperate not to be like his father, a young boxer must fight everything he knows to stop history repeating. Clayton Murdoch carries a terrible darkness inside him: as a boy he was exposed by his brutal father to violence, domestic abuse, gang culture and ultimately murder. Years later and with his father now in prison, Clayton struggles to overcome his past. In a city where every day there is a constant threat of violence and death, he keeps his sanity by channelling his aggression into boxing, the one part of his life where he feels powerful, in control, contained. However, when the violence that surrounds him starts to destroy his own family, Clayton’s inner darkness is unleashed. And now, to gain vengeance against those who have taken his loved ones, he must ask the one man he fears the most for help: his father. With everything around him falling apart and the full shocking fury in him let loose, Clayton must look death in the face and find out who is the man inside.

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If a wound won't heal between brothers, can they survive?

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Time Lock is a tense, expressionistic crime thriller about chance and consequence, pride and self-deception. Mark Kerr is a jaded hotel manager with a gambling problem, sleepwalking through his life until he is tricked into facilitating a jewellery heist at the conference hotel where he works. Held in the basement of the hotel through the night, waiting for the time-lock on the safe to open, Mark's prospects of survival take a turn for the worse when his captor, Cal recognises him as a former teacher who was responsible for his expulsion from school fifteen years before. Mark must now face up to his failings as a man and rediscover his humanity if he is to placate his angry tormentor, protect the hotel staff and guests from harm - and survive the ordeal.

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A romantic comedy with a subversive yet uplifting message. Based on Matt Thorne’s award-winning novel of life in a Bristol Call Centre. Having chosen the easiest office job he can find, Dan wrongly assumes that no one will have any expectations of him and he can get on with his simple ambition for an easy life. These hopes are wrecked when a misunderstanding with his mother results in his sudden eviction from home and he must resort to secretly living in the call centre with his cat. A complex web of secrets and lies leads Dan into a series of increasingly bizarre and uncompromising scenarios and he is gradually stripped of everything he has taken for granted: clean clothes, an iPod, friends, and his self respect. His future is on hold, his life is in limbo, and morality has also been temporarily suspended. It is only the fragile blossoming love affair with the one person on the team who is possibly worse off than himself that eventually provides Dan with the courage to create a romantic ending that defies conventional expectations.

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A compulsive love affair seems blissful and happens in a space free from constraints. But when the consequences inevitably appear they do so in terrifying and unexpected ways. Brought face-to-face with someone much more powerful than himself, Arthur is dragged into a startling confrontation with his own lack of control.

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Ten days of mercy, introspection and forgiveness.

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Socially-challenged hitman Charles lives in Cannes and wants to retire with a yacht and a woman in tow. He has no experience with either until he lets his cleaning lady (delectable Essex-girl Lisa) into his life, but he doesn't bank on her vile boyfriend Denny or con-artists Simon and Ray stealing a two million quid nest egg from the boot of his car. Charles hunts them down across the Cote d'Azur whilst pursued by his rival Clancy who is incensed by the fact that Charles might actually be retiring.

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On 3rd September 1860 Charles Dickens burned his lifetime’s correspondence. Alone on the darkest night of his life he reads a letter full of love and restraint from Nelly Ternan, showing us the private world of Charles Dickens through the eyes of a young woman forever hidden from his public.

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FIRST DATE starts as a heist gone wrong but develops into a human story set within the confines of a tense action sequence.

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After failing to talk to the pretty volunteer at a fundraiser for a disused swimming pool, a young man overcompensates by starting off an awkward chain reaction of events to catch her eye and save the day.

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After twenty years apart and leading very different lives, sisters Jess and Maria reunite to organise the final details of their Mother's funeral.

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Camelot is closed, King Arthur is dead and the Round Table is no more. Trainee knights GILBERT (a highly-strung hypochondriac) and EDGAR (an up-beat Christian) find themselves wandering the land in the company of a MYSTERIOUS KNIGHT in search of money, adventure and comfortable underwear. When the mysterious knight dies (mysteriously) Gilbert and Edgar find themselves in possession of a letter addressed to him from a certain KING KENDRICK, entreating him to help rescue his recently kidnapped daughter KATRINA. The letter comes with a bag of gold. Gilbert and Edgar act at once... they spend the gold. One pair of pants and a saint’s kneecap later, the two knights are once again on their uppers. Whilst drowning their sorrows in a village grog shack, however, the two men get wind of an employment opportunity in the local castle of KING VINCENT of Essex. They make their way to the castle and are immediately hired as security guards. Their jobs, however, are a little less than chivalrous, as it transpires that their main duty is to guard the recently abducted Princess Katrina, King Vincent’s bride-to-be. Far from being the damsel in distress of legend Princess Katrina is in fact a violent, foul-mouthed bully who harangues Gilbert into agreeing to help rescue her. Edgar, meanwhile, is approached by Katrina’s altogether more pleasant (and comely) sister RACHAEL who appeals to Edgar’s sense of decency and he too agrees to help. Sworn to secrecy, the two hapless knights begin separate (and misguided) plans to rescue Princess Katrina whilst trying to avoid the various unpleasant inhabitants of the castle. Can the two knights escape this casserole of intrigue? Can they rescue the Princess and put pay to the wicked king? KNIGHT KNIGHT is a tale of saddle-sore knights, castle politics and black pudding. A tale of love, friendship and adventure that didn’t quite make it into the history books.